The actor and activist's website featured an all black screen with the hashtag #Jewswillnotdivideus. The anti-Semitic statement coincided with observance of Passover, one of the most sacred and widely observed holidays of the Jewish religion. The offensive hashtag was soon removed.

LaBeouf was arrested in February in New York after getting into an altercation with a man outside a mounted camera exhibit he established where passer-byes would repeat the phrase "He will not divide us," referring to President Donald Trump. The exhibit has since been discontinued.